All
information in this article is for educational purposes only.It is not for the diagnosis, treatment,
prescription or cure of any disease or health condition.

This article
discusses important questions about nutritional supplements including:

Table Of Contents

- Why take nutritional supplements?

- Are they safe or
at least low toxicity?

-
Are they better than drugs, in general?

-
Can they substitute for medical drugs and other medical treatments?

- Can a person die from taking them?

- Why does nutritional balancing not recommend most of them?

- Why are they are needed in very precise
dosages?

- Why do we give them in doses, at times, that
may exceed the recommended daily allowances or RDA for the nutrient?

- Why do we use a hair analysis to recommend
them?

- Must all supplements be food-based and
all-natural to work best?

- Are there supplements that are
best avoided?

- Can a person just read about supplements and take the right
ones?

- What about the use of herbs, homeopathic
remedies and other specialty products?

-
What about new supplement regulations, and do we need them?

WHY DOES EVERYONE
NEED NUTRITIONAL SUPPLEMENTS?

Among the many
reasons are:

1.
Soil depletion has reduced the nutrient content of our food supply.In most areas of the world, the land has been over-farmed and over-grazed.In most of the world, manures and other
mineral-rich products are not put back enough on the
land.This has depleted the soil
quality.In many other areas, the
soil is just of low quality and is difficult to improve.This produces food that is low in many
minerals, in particular, but also low in vitamins, and hundreds of other
nutrients found in food.

2.
Hybrid crops provide lower-nutrient food.These are used everywhere today, even on organic
farms.They yield more food per
acre, but the crops all have a much lower nutrient content than those grown 100
years ago.This is well-documented in US Department of Agriculture statistics
and elsewhere.For
example, at least ten times as much rice or wheat are grown on the same land as
was grown there 100 years ago.But the land is not stocked with ten times the minerals,
vitamins and other nutrients.As a
result, in part, today's wheat contains about 6% protein whereas 100 years ago
it contained 12-14%.Trace mineral
levels are similarly much lower due to high-yield farming methods.

3.
Modern fertilizers do not supply enough trace elements. One hundred years
ago, manures were used extensively for
fertilizer.Today, superphosphate
fertilizers have largely replaced manures.These contain mainly nitrogen, potassium and phosphorus and
are deficient in the trace elements.This is sad, but true.Our
crops are more like a person on steroids – stimulated, but not as strong
and safe.Superphosphates
often act more as growth stimulants.This has contributed greatly to depletion of the soil and crop
minerals.This includes
organically grown food, although it is much better.

4.
Modern use of chemical pesticides and herbicides all over the world make food
somewhat toxic, and damage soil microorganisms.Both of these also reduce the nutrition of the crops.Soil microorganisms are
needed to make minerals and other nutrients available to plants.When these are
damaged by Roundup, and hundreds of other toxic pesticides, insecticides
and other chemicals put on crops, the soil micro-organisms do not function as
well, and the nutrient content of the food becomes lower.

Also, our bodies require
extra nutrients to process pesticide residues that remain inside the foods, so
the pesticides that we must eat daily also reduce our nutritional status each
and every day.Many pesticides are
deadly chemicals that severely tax the human system.Some contain lead, arsenic and other toxic metals that
slowly accumulate in the body.

Our laws currently
allow sewage and even factory sludge to be sold as
fertilizer that contains significant quantities of toxic metals.These add
greatly to our toxic metal burden and requires that we take in nutrients
to help remove them from the body.

5.
Long-distance transportation of many foods diminishes their nutritional
content.As soon as a food is harvested, the levels of certain nutrients begin to diminish.Today, many foods are
grown thousands of miles from population centers.The food may spend a week on a truck or
a train before it reaches you.

In addition, some
foods, especially fruits, must be sprayed, irradiated, or
processed in other ways in order to survive the journey across the world.For example, many people do not realize
that much of our food comes from South America, Asia and China.These are miles away and transportation
is slow.The food can grow moldy
and you wouldn’t even know it.

6.
Food processing often drastically reduces the nutrient content of common foods
such as wheat flour, rice, dairy products and others.For example, the refining of wheat to
make white flour removes 80% of its magnesium, 70-80% of its zinc, 87% of its chromium,
88% of its manganese and 50% of its cobalt.

Similarly, refining
sugar cane to make white sugar removes 99% of its magnesium and 93% of its
chromium.Polishing (refining)
rice removes 75% of its zinc and chromium.This is just the beginning of most food processing, however.

This is why fresh
frozen vegetables, and freshly canned sardines are not
that bad.At least they are preserved quickly after harvesting or catching the fish,
and the preservation method is not that terrible.The best food, however, is freshly
harvested or freshly killed and eaten quickly.

Pasteurization
and homogenization of dairy products drastically reduces the bioavailability of
calcium, phosphorus and some proteins in milk and other dairy products.This is one of the worst insults to our
food today.

7.
Food additives often further deplete nutrients.Thousands of artificial flavors, colors, dough conditioners,
sweeteners, artificial sweeteners, stabilizers, flavor enhancers like MSG,
emulsifiers, hardeners, softeners, chemical preservatives and other chemicals are added to most people’s food today.While a few are harmless and may even
increase the quality of the food by preserving it, many are toxic and many
diminish the nutritional content of the food.

Among the worst are
preservatives like BHA and BHT,
artificial sweeteners like Aspartame, and perhaps EDTA, a chelating agent, that is
added to some frozen vegetables to preserve the color of the vegetables.The way it works is by removing vital
minerals from the surface of the vegetable because when minerals oxidize, the
color of the vegetable turns dark and ugly.This is like tarnishing of silver.

8. Weak digestion and
poor eating habits impair the absorption of nutrients. Almosteveryone’s digestion is very weak today.This is due to eating poor quality food, hybridized
varieties of foods like wheat, and having to digest and handle so many refined
foods and chemicals in the foods.It is also due to low vitality, low digestive enzyme secretion, and
imbalanced intestinal flora and intestinal infections like yeast that are
extremely common.This is quite a
deadly combination.

As a result, most
people do not absorb nutrients well at all.This further impairs nutrient levels in the body, and
increases nutritional needs.This
is why in nutritional balancing programs, everyone is
given a digestive aid containing digestive enzymes such as pancreatin
and ox bile.

9.Stressful and hurried lifestyles impair
digestion and use up more nutrients.These may include calcium, magnesium, zinc, chromium, manganese and many
others.Zinc begins to be eliminated from the body within minutes of a stress.This is why many people have white
spots on their fingernails, for example.Stress adds to all the other causes of impaired nutrition above to make
things much worse for most people today around the world.

Most people do not
realize that stress always causes excessive
sympathetic nervous system activity.This not only uses up nutrients, as explained in the paragraph
above.It also reduces digestive
strength and ability.This, in
turn, reduces nutrient absorption and utilization even further.

10.
Chronic and acute infections and other illnesses most people have also depletes
nutrients and increases nutritional needs.

11.
Almost all babies are born deficient today.In
other words, most people need extra nutrition from the day they are born just
to make up for deficiencies present at birth.These are calledcongenital
mineral and other deficiencies, which means present at birth.

It is critical to
understand that nutrient deficiencies are passed from
mother to child through the placenta.Those who raise livestock all know this, but somehow medical doctors,
nurses and dietitians do not.

12.
The increased use of vaccines and medical drugs can drastically deplete a
person’s nutrition.This is especially
true of any drug that impairs digestion or absorption of food such as
antibiotics, anti-acids, acid-blockers, aspirin, Tylenol, Aleve, Excedrin and hundreds
ofother
prescription and over-the-counter remedies.

13.
Toxic chemicals and toxic metals in the air, water and elsewhere also deplete
nutrients and increase the need for nutrition to combat them.This is an enormous problem today.Toxic chemicals are everywhere, in
buildings, schools, homes, work places, urban air, and in almost all water
supplies, even the purest ones.

14.
Some medical procedures also drastically deplete nutrients. These include surgeries of all types,
and even some tests such as x-rays.Surgeries cause stress and add more drugs to the system.X-rays deplete B-complex vitamins and
perhaps other nutrients such as zinc.This is known in medical circles, but nothing
is done about it.

ŠAnyone who uses alcohol, refined sugar or recreational drugs
such as marijuana.

ŠAnyone following a vegetarian or other restricted diet for
any reason such as weight loss or anything else.

ŠAnyone under extra stress due to financial issues, a
difficult job or marriage, or for any other reason.

Add up the numbers in these
groups and you have most of the population!Yet few health professionals are taught
that all of these situations require extra nutrients beyond that which is
available from only the highest quality food, eaten in a healthful manner.

16. Supplements can be used by everyone to protect against
disease, eliminate deficiency states, prevent future illness, and balance the
body chemistry.These topics are discussed
later in this article.

17.
The nutritional standards set by governments around the world are much too low.
As a result, people do not make an
effort to eat a higher nutrient diet.This is a complex subject discussed in the section below.

FALLACIES OF THE RDAs
AND MDRs

Government
“scientists” meet periodically to decide the levels of the recommended daily
allowances (RDA) or minimum daily requirements (MDRs)
of common nutrients.Their main
concern is how much is needed to prevent deficiency
diseases.For example, a vitamin C
deficiency causes scurvy, a vitamin A deficiency causes night blindness, and a
vitamin B1 or thiamine deficiency can cause a horrible disease called pellagra.

While
this approach is okay as far as it goes, these recommendations have little to do with
optimum health.Their
recommendations are more like the minimum nutrition to stay alive.The idea that the RDA is enough is
flawed.I would say it is fatally
flawed.Problems with the RDAs or MDRs include:

1. It is one size
fits all.This alone is enough to
discredit this nutritional approach.People’s needs are not all alike.

2. It tends to
ignore many subtle aspects of human nutrition such as the effect of stress,
chronic illness, pregnancy and other factors on one’s nutritional needs.This is much harder to measure, so the
bureaucrats just ignore it.If
they considered it, they would not suggest that everyone needs the same amount
of any nutrient.

3. Also, the RDAs and MDRs are set up by dietitians, a group of people who are
not trained in optimum health, but only the allopathic medical version of good
nutrition.They are
influenced by the drug industry, as are the medical doctors and the
public health officials in most nations.The drug industry wants a sick, malnourished
population that will buy their toxic products.Optimum nutrition is their worst nightmare, so it is not taught in medical schools, nursing schools, public
health schools or dietetics schools.It is also not taught to public
school teachers or college-level education, as that would threaten the entire
drug medicine paradigm.

Horrible results of the use of the MDRs.Here are just a few of them:

a) Pregnant women
are allowed to basically starve themselves and their
babies.

b) Supplement labels
cause panic because the amounts of nutrients the tablets contain are compared to the RDA on each supplement bottle.This can cause alarm until one
understands why the RDAs are inappropriate, much too low, and often irrelevent.

c) School lunch
programs and other nutrition programs set up by the government to feed poor
people, for example, do a terrible job because the standards are far too low.

THE FALLACY OF THE
‘FOUR FOOD GROUPS’ AND THE ‘FOOD PYRAMID’ IDEAS

These
more modern dietary concepts also do not take into account the problems in our
food supply listed above.A separate article discusses these in more detail entitled Food And Dietary Concepts.

2. ARE SUPPLEMENTS
SAFE AND DO MANY PEOPLE DIE FROM TAKING THEM?

Nutritional
supplements are among the safest products in existence.According to the Poison Control Centers
in the United States, for example, there have been less than 10 deaths at all
from nutritional supplements since they started keeping records about 23 years
ago.Recently, these figures were further analyzed by interviewing people who claimed
that death was caused by a supplement.The result was that in fact, there were no deaths from nutrients.Even if the latter is not true, which
is hard for me to assess, this is an astounding safety record.

By
comparison, the non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, which are just one small
class of drugs, cause at least 10,000 recorded deaths
each year.Many deaths from them are not reported.Hospital infections probably kill 20,000 per year in the US alone.Other classes of drugs, including
insulin and others are far more lethal.Two articles about this subject are Problems
With Drugs and Dangerous
Drugs on this website.

I
must laugh when people warn us about taking vitamins and minerals, or taking
too many of them.They are so
wrong, and so brainwashed by medical propaganda.They do not realize that there is today a concerted effort
to stop the sale and use of nutritional supplements because it threatens not
only the drug industry.It
threatens the hospitals, the doctors, the laboratories, the medical device
makers, and more.

The above industries
constitute a cartel or group that controls medical care.The last thing they want is for people
to heal themselves with simple, low-toxicity, natural substances that cost
pennies compared to their products.This is the truth, and it is available to anyone who looks for it.References at the end of this article
give some sources.Life Extension
Foundation, and Death By Medicine, a paper by Gary
Null et. al., are two recent sources.

We
will not detail the safety level of each mineral and vitamin in this article,
as there is too much more to write about.Later on, however, in this article, we discuss supplements to
avoid.Taking the wrong
supplements can impair health, to be sure.But even this is often safer than
taking medical and over-the-counter drugs.

3. IS NUTRIENT
THERAPY AS POWERFUL AS MEDICAL DRUG THERAPY, AND CAN NUTRIENT THERAPY EVER
SUBSTITUTE FOR THE USE OF MEDICAL DRUGS?

The
simple answer to both of these questions is yes.Nutritional balancing gets rid of the need for most medical
drugs quickly, effectively and safely.We do not use herbs, as a rule, because these are not as safe.Nor do we use bio-identical hormones,
which we consider medical drugs.Nor do we use chelation therapy, which we
consider a newer medical drug therapy, even natural chelating agents such as zeolite, chlorella, spirulina and
others.

Sophisticated
nutrient therapy based on a properly performed and properly interpreted hair
tissue mineral analysis, combined with a healthful diet, a healthful lifestyle
and proper drinking water is usually completely able to remove the need for
most medical drugs within a few years or often less time than this.

The
major exceptions are if an organ or gland has been removed surgically,
and perhaps if one is too old to regenerate the glands and organs fast
enough.Vitality decreases with age, so if you want to get well naturally, begin as soon as
possible, as it is a process that takes a number of years in most cases, even
in children and babies today.

WHY TAKE JUST
SPECIFIC AMOUNTS OF EACH NUTRIENT? - BIOCHEMICAL
INDIVIDUALITY

For
optimum health, one needs newer and more scientific concepts about nutrition
than the outdated idea of RDAs and MDRs.One of these is biochemical individuality.This term originated with Dr. Roger Williams to describe his research
finding that nutritional needs vary
tremendously from person to person.From this perspective, average standards mean very little.

Physicians
use many methods to try to figure out people’s supplement needs.Nutritional balancing science uses a
rather unique way to assess nutritional needs that involves hair mineral
testing.However, the test is used
in a very special way that is described in other articles on this website.

It involves learning
about each person's oxidation rate, stage of stress, trace element levels,
toxic metal levels, carbohydrate tolerance, digestive adequacy, state of the
immune system and other factors that can be identified
on the test.

One
must also take into account each person's age, sex, weight and health
conditions including pregnancy and acute or chronic illnesses.All these affect one's nutritional
requirements.

ORTHOMOLECULAR NUTRITION

Orthomolecular nutrition is related to biochemical individuality.This term was coined
by the late Dr. Linus Pauling.It means to give just the amount of a
nutrient that is needed, not an average or standard
amount.

Nutritional
balancing science often recommends different supplements than those used by
many orthomolecular physicians in that we often use foods and nutrients not to
directly correct symptoms, but to balance body chemistry.For example, a person in an alarm stage
of stress requires more calcium, copper, magnesium, choline
and inositol.However, excessive vitamin B-complex or C are harmful for that person.

A
person in the exhaustion stage of stress requires more vitamin B-complex and C,
and much less copper.By properly
combining nutrients and taking into account mineral levels, ratios and
patterns, our programs are much more precise.Also,correction deeper and more permanent.

OTHER REASONS FOR
HIGHER NUTRIENT DOSAGES IN SOME CASES

Nutritional
balancing may also recommend higher dosages of certain nutrients for other
reasons.These include:

1. Isolated nutrients
and supplements are used to balance cellular mineral ratios.This is a rather amazing use of
specific vitamins and minerals that was developed by Dr. Paul
Eck, and which I have refined and expanded.At times, rather high doses are needed for short periods of time.They work well, with no side effects, and can balance the body chemistry
in amazing ways.

2.
Isolated nutrients and foods can be used to counteract or ameliorate specific
physical, mental or emotional symptoms.

Thousands of studies have
demonstrated that targeted nutrient therapy can reduce and even prevent many
types of symptoms.

For example, vitamins A and C,
along with zinc and selenium, in high enough doses, can reduce the severity of
many infections.

Many mental, emotional problems
and neurological conditions such as depression, anxiety, epilepsy and many
others also respond very well to nutrient supplementation programs.

This
is another area of nutrition that is sadly overlooked
by the medical, psychological and modern psychiatric professions.Instead, they are
owned by the drug industry.Most also do not understand the connection between nutrients in the
brain and behavior.If they did,
they would quickly start using nutritional balancing science, as it is so
powerful, safe and, in many cases, quite simple to use as well.

If
they at least acknowledged the toxicity to the nervous system of common metals
like copper, cadmium, mercury and others, we would all be far better off.The medical drugs are a very poor
substitute for fixing brain chemistry, which, as stated above, is often not so
difficult if one is trained in this area.

In this context, we offer a
Diploma program and advanced training if someone wishes to become a nutritional
balancing Helper.This is discussed on two web pages, entitled Basic Helping and Advanced Helping.

3.
Precise nutrients helpful for trauma, such as rape.We have found that specific nutients
in precise dosages can reverse the damaging physical and mental/emotional
effects of most traumas, PTSD, rape, anxiety attacks
and other related problems.This
is discussed in two articles on this website, Rape And What To Do About It and Trauma
Release.

4.Precise supplements are helpful for
development. A critical
benefit of a nutritional balancing program is development.This heals
the body deeply, extends life and has many other benefits.

There is a great need for
development on planet earth at this time to stop the epidemics and more. This can
only happen when enough people are functioning at high enough levels to come up
with creative solutions to these vexing problems that affect us all, directly
or indirectly.This topic is
discussed in several articles on this site entitled Introduction To
Development, Ways To Assist Development,
Diet and Development, and
others.

WHY
DOES NUTRITIONAL BALANCING USE A PROPERLY PERFORMED HAIR TISSUE MINERAL
ANALYSIS TO RECOMMEND SUPPLEMENT DOSAGES?

Many methods can
be used to assess body chemistry and recommend nutritional supplements
to improve one’s health.Common
ones include blood tests, urine tests, applied kinesiology or muscle testing,
the use of various electrical machines, questionnaires, diet analyses, computer
software based on diet and symptoms, stool tests, and others.

I have experimented with many of
these systems.The most successful
for me, although certainly not the simplest or easiest to implement, has been
the use of a hair tissue mineral test.The test must be run by a lab that does not wash the
hair, of which I know of only two in the entire world.Also, the test
must be interpreted properly using stress theory, chaos theory, metabolic types
set up by Dr. Eck, and a number of other parameters.

When this is
done, the results have been the best, by far, of any method I have
used.For details on why the hair
mineral biopsy method works so well, controversy with this method, and more,
read Introduction To Hair Mineral Analysis and
other articles on nutritional balancing science on this website.

OTHER
SUPPLEMENT-RELATED TOPICS - HERBS

Commonly used food supplements
include over one thousand herbs.Many come from ancient Chinese, Native American or other healing
traditions.Herb texts describe
many ways to use herbs for healing and nourishment of the body.Dr. Paul Eck, founder of nutritional
balancing science, did not use too many herbs for a number of reasons:

1.
Inability to balance the body precisely.Because herbs contain many nutrients and other substances,
it is not as easy as it is with isolated nutrients to use herbs to precisely
balance mineral ratios on a hair analysis.Since this is the basis for today’s nutritional balancing
science, the herbs are of less use.

2. They are often
a little toxic.For example, aluminum-containing
herbs include peppermint, spearmint and wintergreen.They are helpful to settle an upset stomach, but are also
somewhat toxic for this reason.A
cup of peppermint tea on a regular basis is therefore not ideal though using it
once in a while is fine.

All Chinese or Ayurvedic (East Indian) herbs seem to be somewhat
toxic.Occasional use is okay, but
regular use is not good at all.

3. Quality can
vary tremendously.This problem is getting worse as more
people want to use herbs, and there are fewer places to grow
them that are free of chemicals and other soil contaminants.

4. Since quality
varies, dosing of herbs can be difficult.This means
that one does not always know how much to take.If the herb is very potent, much less is
needed.This can lead to
overdoses.

5. Combinations of
herbs can be even more toxic or may not mix well in other ways.This is the same problem as mixing medical drugs, to a
degree.Herbal combinations can
oppose each other or impact one another in harmful ways, although herbs tend to
be safer than medical drugs.

6.
Cost.Good quality herbs are often
costly.Nutritional balancing
attempts to keep costs down wherever possible so more people can benefit.This is another reason herbs are not
used much in nutritional balancing.

HOMEOPATHIC REMEDIES

Homeopathy is a 150-year-old
approach to healing that is extremely interesting.It is a type of energetic medicine using
very diluted and “potentized” remedies that begin as
common minerals, herbs, and every other substance imaginable.They are prepared in special ways so
that eventually just the energy of the substance remains, with little if any of
the original compound or substance.

When prescribed correctly, which
is very difficult, they may have good effects on the body and mind.Homeopathic remedies are generally much
safer than pharmaceutical drugs.However, they are not easy to use properly.Other problems with them is they do
not balance the oxidation rate or mineral ratios.Also, they are much too yin in
Chinese medical terms to be used regularly.An exception in which they can behelpful is for symptomatic
relief of a cold, flu or other condition, which is a short-term use.

OTHER SPECIALTY
PRODUCTS

Today,
thousands of other products are sold as food
supplements.Some are excellent
and may be added to nutritional balancing programs, at
times.For more about some of
these products, read the article entitled Specialty
Products.

Many products at health food and
drug stores, however, should be avoided, however, as most contain toxic
substances.A second reason to
avoid taking too many supplements is they appear to confuse the body and most
are very yin in Chinese medical terminology.This is harmful today, even if the supplement itself is
nutritionally beneficial.This is
confusing, but is an important aspect of supplementation.For more on this topic, read the
articles Yin and Yang Healing, and Yin Disease on this website.

Supplements
to avoid.The following supplements are generally
okay for a month or two.However,
avoid all prolonged use:

ŠFulvic and humic
acid products.These
will give symptomatic results, but they contain some toxic metals and therefore
are not good long-term.

ŠAll chelation products.These are often extracts of cilantro,chlorella, bugleweed, yellow
dock, and may contain EDTA, DMPS,
DMSA and other chelators.

ŠClay
productssuch as bentonite,
zeolite, montomorillonite, azomite and others.These are popular today as chelators or cleansing products.

ŠAll
herbs, as discussed above.A list of safer herbs is given below.Unfortunately, I find very few herbal
products that I can recommend besides simple nourishing herbs such as chamomile
tea, hibiscus tea and others.

ŠMost
protein powders, cleansing drinks and powders, intestinal cleansers and related
products.These tend to
be very yin, nutritionally incomplete, often bad food combinations, and should
only be used, if at all, for very short periods of time
for these reasons.Whole foods are
generally much better.For
example, one can live on rice for a week if one wishes
to do an intestinal cleanse.However, with most nutritional balancing programs, such cleanses and
detoxification regimens are totally unnecessary and
usually slow down our progress.Exceptions are rare.

ŠHerbal fruit drinks.A little of these, such as acai, mangosteen, nopal, noni, aloe, goji berry or camucamu, may be okay once in a while.However, all of them are very yin.They may give one a boost in some way, but eventually they make the body
extremely yin, which is not helpful at all and prevents deep healing.It does not matter how nutritious they
are.

ŠAvoid most random
and symptomatic supplementation.This is very tempting, but in fact, often slows down progress on
nutritional balancing programs and can easily ruin or negate the entire
program.With
nutritional balancing science, these supplements are not necessary or
helpful.This is very difficult to
understand unless one learns about general systems theory, and the other
theories on which nutritional balancing is based.Too
many supplements negate each other, are too yin, and often upset
digestion.Symptomatic nutrition
is a completely different approach to healing than nutritional balancing, and
the two do not mix.Please do not
try to combine these methods.

ŠAll
“natural” and “bio-identical” hormones.Unfortunately, these are becoming more and more widely used.They are all drugs, from our perspective, since hormones are
supposed to be made inside the body, in very precise
amounts that change moment to moment, depending on the body’s needs.Taking
hormones from the outside always upsets the body’s natural feedback mechanisms
and, in our experience, always slows or even stops progress on nutritional
balancing science.Hormone therapy
is part of allopathic medicine, which is a totally
different approach to health than nutritional balancing science.Please beware and do not use hormone
replacement therapy unless a gland has been removed from the
body or destroyed with radiation or disease.Please read Hormone
Replacement Therapy for much more on this topic.

ŠAlso
beware of alkaline water machines – all brands.One is basically
drinking filtered tap water, which is not great.Then the water is passed over
platinum and titanium plates.This
will impart a little of these extremely toxic metals to the water, as well.To
alkalinize the body, eat plenty of cooked vegetables.Even worse may be alkaline water from water stores.They begin with reverse osmosis water,
which is not healthful.Then they
add coral calcium, which often contains some toxic metals.The combination drives the toxic metals
deep into the body cells, causing severe problems after a year of so.

ŠAvoid
all water from water machines that use reverse osmosis.For more on this,
please read Water For Drinking
on this website.

Food supplements in the United
States are protected from excessive regulation by the FDA by the Dietary Health
and Supplement Education Act of 1994.Though it has been amended, this law essentially classifies
supplements differently than drugs as “foods for special use”.Drug companies and their cronies make
every effort to regulate supplements out of existence, as supplements often
directly compete with drug profits.

Recently, laws were passed in both houses of Congress, led mainly by Ted
Kennedy, Dick Durbin, Hillary Clinton and Henry Waxman.The bill requires supplement companies
to comply with the same adverse reporting requirements as drug companies.The cost of implementing this bill
could drive many smaller supplement companies out of business.And that is
the unspoken goal.

The Codex Alimentarius
is a second push by international drug companies and some others to reduce our
health status further.This way
there will be far more demand for patent remedies,
which are drugs.

The Codex would also regulate
the supplement industry and perhaps eliminate it altogether unless one has a
doctor’s prescription.It could
reduce the allowable over-the-counter dosages of all vitamins and minerals to
levels so low the products won’t be worth producing.

Food supplements often provide
10 to 100 times the Recommended Daily Allowance of a nutrient.They must do so to offset the poor absorption
and extra needs of thousands of people.

The Codex rules are already law
in parts of Europe and scheduled to begin to take effect in the United States
of America in 2009.If we value
our freedom to choose and our health, these and similar efforts must be
stopped.